the whole sentence pls.

English translation: Artificial underflooding of the area ...

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Exploitation or operation is a matter of local preference and personal taste. I just happen to use exploitation because it\'s a common way of referring to resource extraction.... Operation is probably more neutral.

Exploitation or operation is a matter of local preference and personal taste. I just happen to use exploitation because it\'s a common way of referring to resource extraction.... Operation is probably more neutral.

Explanation:I checked for "underflooding" on various sources on the internet, and found that it is not a word found in English dictionaries, and I only found it used in abstracts written in Russia. One abstract used the word "percolation" in parentheses alongside of "underflooding". I would suggest that "underflooding" is not a word commonly used in the English world, and that a form of "percolation" would perhaps be more suitable.

-> I respectfully disagree with Jack. Percolation is the process of a liquid moving through a porous substance, and may so move in any direction. The most common place where downward movement is associated with the word percolate is when brewing coffee.

Explanation:Agree that in physical chemistry percolation is the movement of a liquid through a porous medium in any direction. However: "Percolation. In pedology (which I presume we are dealing with), the downward movment of water through soil,especially through soil that is saturated or close to saturation" (Concise Oxford Dictinary of Earth Sciences). The Glossary of Soil Science Terms offers the same explanation with the addition "...at hydraulic gradients of the order of 1.0 or less."